In these days of bumper-to-bumper traffic, it may be hard to imagine a time when streetcar tracks crisscrossed the city. For more than 50 years, that was the case.
AUSTIN, Texas — Those streets you drive on in Austin? Try to imagine them before cars and trucks cluttered the roads. Imagine a time when the only way to get around was to pay a nickel and get aAs early as the 1870s, there were no tracks laid yet and streetcars ran on “mule” power. But by 1900, mile after mile of shiny new steel rails crisscrossed most of the main roads in the city.
By the early 1900s, tracks ran as far north as the Hyde Park neighborhood and stretched down the Congress Avenue Bridge into south Austin.
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